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The man who taped LA police officers beating Rodney King, thus propelling a national conversation on race and policing after the 1992 riots, has died of COVID-19.
George Holliday, 61, died Sunday at a hospital in Simi Valley, California, after battling COVID since mid August, TMZ reported.
Holliday was not vaccinated against the virus. He reportedly had several blood clots and internal bleeding that led to his death.
According to a friend who spoke to the outlet, doctors had initially made Holliday use an oxygen tube to treat his pneumonia, but he was put on a ventilator as his condition worsened.
In March of 1991, Holliday was in his LA apartment when he was awakened by noise from police officers who were brutally beating Rodney King, then 25.
Holliday quickly grabbed his video camera and started recoding the beating from his balcony, and passed the tape on to a TV station.
'You know how it is when you have a new piece of technology,' he said in an interview. 'You film anything and everything.'
